July 2007
65 posts
Graphene Oxide + Water = Material Stronger than... →
Google Plans YouTube Antipiracy Tool for September... →
“If you’re driving a Porsche in your neighborhood, and everyone in the...”
– Michael H. Leiters, Porsche’s development head, on why the German sports car maker is developing hybrid technology - New York Times
“We eclipsed the entire installed base of Apple in the first five weeks that this...”
– Kevin Turner, Microsoft COO, on Windows Vista sales - New York Times
A rhythm of lines →
Amazing new flash site for the Audi A5. Uses Papervision3D.
New face detection system also recognizes emotions... →
A Low-Fi Solution to E-Mail Overload: Sentenc.es -... →
“More than any other medium in the world, the time commitment difference between...”
– Mike Davidson, on reason #1 of 2 why he dislikes e-mail as-is.
“That’s why trackbacks are great. An individual can add to the discourse...”
– Me, agreeing with both David Winer and Joel Spolsky. I acknowledge that I’m really referring to linkbacks, which is a lesser-used term.
“When a blog allows comments right below the writer’s post, what you get is...”
– Joel Spolsky, agreeing with David Winer
“…to the extent that comments interfere with the natural expression of the...”
– David Winer, on the unfortunate effects of comments on blogging
Jonathan Ive receives a National Design Award -... →
Available iPhone fonts
American Typewriter
American Typewriter Condensed
Arial
Arial Rounded MT Bold
Courier New
Georgia
Helvetica
Marker Felt
Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS
Verdana
Zapfino
[via Daring Fireball]
Leave Fake Steve Jobs fake - TUAW →
Hear, hear.
“The main advantage of playing on globes or spheres rather than a big open 3D...”
– Shigeru Miyamoto - Game | Life
Google Print Ads Now Used by 225 Newspapers -... →
It’s not about the Web.
It’s about merging people and technology to do new things in other, perhaps better, ways.
Whether it’s a printing press or a phone or a billboard or a web site.
Why Google's Bid for the 700MHz Spectrum Is Good...
Google has used its heft to attempt to impose conditions on the upcoming
700MHz auction. Its conditions include no limitations on the applications,
services, and content that an end user can access, no handset lock-in, and a
requirement to resell services over the network wholesale.
It almost doesn’t matter if Google ends up buying that spectrum, as long as
its conditions are met. The...
“Google and its allies […] don’t need a government handout at...”
– CTIA President and CEO Steve Largent - washingtonpost.com While this deal could be many things, one of those is not a handout.
Google to bid on wireless spectrum, if FCC opens... →
“Custom Search Business Edition turns off Google Adwords advertisements in search...”
– Google Custom Search Business Edition
Google offers site-specific search for businesses... →
$100 per year and up.
Adobe uses interactive video wall to promote CS3 -... →
Video in action (Gizmodo)
TiVo's StopWatch(TM) Reports Top Commercials →
[via Engadget]
The iPhone Threat to Adobe, Microsoft, Sun, Real,... →
T-Mobile offers personal picocells for enhanced... →
‘HotSpot@Home’ product allows for seamless mobile-to-WiFi transitions for calls, beefs up consumer’s coverage.
Net radio "compromise" hinged on DRM adoption -... →
The Green Road Less Traveled - New York Times →
Sony Blu-ray ad provided in bloggable minisite... →
Sony Blu-ray ad. The interesting thing here is that a consumer company is making blog-able and embeddable videos without going through YouTube and the like. I’ve been evangelizing this approach for the last year or so.
Along with the included wallpapers and such, this becomes a great way to extend your brand with user-distributed minisites, with the video as the hook.
NOTE: the ad was...
Web Development Guidelines for iPhone - Apple... →
